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One of the 25 largest museums in the country, the Portland Art Museum showcases impressive touring exhibitions and permanent collections of American, European, Asian, Native American, and contemporary art. With over 35,000 works of art, it is the region’s most comprehensive visual arts resource.
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Superb even though one of the larger galleries was closed of for an exhibition installation. Looks like they plan to extend buy building a spectacular new adjacent building, will definitely come back when this has come to reality.
I really enjoyed my time at the art museum on a rainy afternoon. The native american exhibits were unique. I enjoyed the digital artificial intelligence display, which I've never seen before. They had a good collection of European and modern art also. I spent about 2 hours here.
We saw their special exhibition American Perspectives, featuring over seventy significant works from NYC's American Folk Art Museum’s collection. There were so many enchanting and fascinating pieces in the form of quilts, paintings, prints, sculptures, papier-mache, primitive painted boxes, and so on. The canvas made of broken pieces from antique wooden chairs was especially intriguing.
Good museum for a small city; right downtown. Entrance location is on the side behind a sign and on the left down a pathway which is confusing. Different exhibits are in different buildings. Beware - despite the impression created that there is a whole exhibit of Botticelli works of art, there is actually one one piece which is described as mostly being painted by his art studio students. Impressionist wing has one by most key artists of that era so a small collection.
The Portland Art Museum was a nice build. In a nice area to walk around. It was small and ok. I was still happy I went to experience it.